What PTE is Not

I have often heard Christians who want to be culturally engaged and relevant appeal to the old statement from Augustine, when he justified Christians partaking of classical learning, saying that we were “plundering the Egyptians.” And there is something to that. We don’t want simply to echo Tertullian’s famous comment when his famous Jerusalem said …

Bread or Toast?

Guy Waters is next up in Tabletalk, and he asks whether the church has misunderstood justification. He says, “Justification in the present, N.T. Wright claims, is primarily about how you can tell who belongs to the church. It is not primarily about the salvation of the sinner. Wright, of course, is not saying that justification …